New Jersey's Problem Abortion Center Hadn't Been Inspected in Six Years; NEW! May be Sold to Another Abortionist  

Bangladesh Woman Found Dead After Botched Legal Abortion

More than Negligence: Lawsuit Charges Wrongful Death and Medical Malpractice

Physicians Condemn Prenatal Sex Selection and State-Sponsored Promotion of Abortion

Parliamentarian Attacks New EU Report that Promotes Abortion  

Partial-Birth Abortion: The Fact-Finding Continues

Louisiana Partial-Birth Abortion Bill: Testimony & Signature

Abortion on Demand Law Goes into Effect in Portugal

Ohio State Budget Contains Funds for Abortion Alternative Program for College Students

Missouri Governor Matt Blunt Signs Bill Limiting Abortions, Promoting Alternatives

NEW! India Government Plans New Abortion Registry to Reduce Number of Illegal Abortions

Congressman Calls for Investigation Into Abortion Drug

Pro-Life Group Warns That Prenatal Testing Has Abortion Concerns...   

NEW JERSEY'S PROBLEM ABORTION SITE HAD NOT BEEN INSPECTED IN 6 YEARS. State health inspectors hadn't inspected an Atlantic City abortion business that has been found to have multiple health code violations in six years. That's despite a promise by state health officials to conducted inspections once every two years.

The problems at the Alternatives abortion center were so profound that state officials closed the abortion facility the week after last. Tom Slater, a spokesman for the state's Department of Health and Human Services, said the state has been unable to keep up with inspections because of a shortage of staff and growth of abortion facilities throughout New Jersey. The Alternatives abortion center, located on the 1600 block of Pacific Avenue, is owned by City Councilman John Schultz, who also was notified of the closing last week.

New Jersey Right to Life Executive Director Marie Tasy said the lack of inspections is a problem. "Although this is the second abortion clinic to be shut down in the last four months for health violations, the real story here is that the NJ Department of Health has been derelict in its duty to protect the public health of NJ citizens because it has not inspected this clinic in at least six years and only did so when they were contacted through an anonymous complaint," she said.

Metropolitan Medical Clinic in Englewood was shut down for about a month last February after Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, NJ filed a complaint about a patient who almost died as a result of an abortion performed at Metropolitan. Twenty year old, Rasheedah Dinkins, was given blood transfusions after severe hemorrhaging and also had to have her uterus removed. She also suffered a stroke due to serious blood loss and had one of her lungs collapse. "This is a sad commentary on our state of affairs and our public officials who claim to be advocates for 'women's rights,'" Tasy commented. [LifeNews.com, 2July07, Atlantic City, NJ]

NJ ABORTION BUSINESS MAY BE SOLD TO ANOTHER ABORTIONIST. Pro-life advocates in New Jersey are upset by the potential sale of an embattled abortion business to an abortion practitioner who has had significant malpractice issues. Dr. Steven Chase Brigham says he plans to by the Alternatives abortion center in Atlantic City, which the state health department recently closed down after an investigation revealed health code violations.

But Brigham has violations of his own and botched abortions and substandard medical treatment let him to lose his license in New York and Florida. And, in 1994, New Jersey restricted him from doing second-trimester abortions after allegations of gross negligence. He recently told the Press newspaper that he had begun the process of purchasing the abortion business and paying its employees before health officials temporarily closed it down on June 22. Yet Alan Kline, a spokesman for the current owner claims the abortion facility is not for sale and state officials say they have not received an application for the sale of Alternatives.

Still, pro-life advocates say the process of an abortion practitioner who has put women at risk running Alternatives presents real concerns. Ironically the state appointed Kline to oversee Brigham’s abortions 13 years ago when he ran into trouble with health officials. Chris Slattery, president of Expectant Mother Care, a New York-based group with pregnancy centers in New Jersey, talked with AP about his concerns. “Our main focus is to block this Brigham sale,” he said. "He has clearly shown a contempt for women's health." [18July07, Atlantic City, NJ LifeNews.com]

BANGLADESH WOMAN FOUND DEAD AFTER BOTCHED LEGAL ABORTION. An unidentified 25 year-old woman was found dead at the residence of a transport businessman at Mohammadpur in the city on Sunday. She died due to excessive bleeding following an abortion, Dhaka Medical College (DMC) morgue sources told the Daily Star newspaper. Police recovered her body from the residence of Nazrul Islam, a transport businessman, at Mohammadia Housing Limited. Later police sent the body to the DMC morgue for autopsy. Sub-Inspector Abdul Bari told The Daily Star that although her identity could not be known, they heard locals used to call her 'Moni' and that she worked as a maid in the community. Bari said Moni went to the house of Nazrul to work for him shortly before her death. [2July07, LifeNews.com, Dhaka, Bangladesh]

MORE THAN NEGLIGENCE: LAWSUIT CHARGES WRONGFUL DEATH AND MEDICAL MALPRACTICE against Planned Parenthood of Riverside.
A lawsuit filed in Riverside County Superior Court on Tuesday charges that an abortion procedure performed on a patient at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Riverside led to a virulent infection that caused her death.
 
Aletheia Meloncon filed the suit on behalf of her daughter, Edrica Goode, charging wrongful death and medical malpractice against Planned Parenthood and the Riverside County Regional Medical Center in Moreno Valley.
 
Goode, 21, was 14 weeks pregnant when she went to Planned Parenthood on Jan. 31 for a procedure preparatory to receiving an abortion. According to the lawsuit, a nurse practitioner, K. Sorenson, inserted cervical dilators into Goode to dilate her cervix in preparation for a second-trimseter abortion, even though Sorenson had indications that Goode had a vaginal infection. The dilators, says the lawsuit, became the means by which the infection spread to the rest of Goode’s body. The next day, Goode was too ill to return for the abortion.
 
According to the June 21 Los Angeles Times, Goode’s patient profile says Planned Parenthood mailed two letters to Goode, saying the dilators needed to be taken out. But, says Meloncon, Goode’s family never received the letters. According to the June 20 Riverside Press Enterprise, Planned Parenthood employees called Goode, but she was too ill to respond.
 
Goode was taken to the Riverside County Regional Medical Center on Feb. 4. She was “confused and disoriented,” Meloncon told the Times. Hospital staff, says Meloncon, did not perform a pelvic examination that would have revealed the dilators because Goode was not coherent enough to request it and the hospital wouldn’t allow Meloncon to make decisions for her daughter.
 
According to the Press Enterprise, Meloncon said that doctors and relatives didn’t know that Goode had gone to Planned Parenthood for an abortion until eight days after she entered the hospital. After four days, said a June 20 WorldNetDaily story, the hospital transferred Goode to a psychiatric unit, which ordered her return to the hospital to be examined for infections and sepsis. The hospital then, after several days, found and removed the dilators, but by that time the infection was too far advanced. Goode died on Feb. 14 of toxic shock syndrome.
 
"Any health care provider in California is required to make a report to [the state] about any unusual occurrences,” Melancon’s attorney Jack Schuler told WorldNetDaily. “This is the third death of a Planned Parenthood patient within the last few years they haven't bothered to report. In fact, they were even cited by the California Department of Health for that failure, and agreed a few years ago to correct their manner of doing business. "I believe that takes it out of the area of negligence and into potential concealment," said Schuler.
[Published: June 22, 2007, CCD, http://calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=f86b423e-4100-4603-a4a5-fc846f8a5a56]

PHYSICIANS CONDEMN PRENATAL SEX SELECTION AND STATE-SPONSORED PROMOTION OF ABORTION. Canadian Physicians for Life endorses the alarm of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada about sex selection blood test kits that could promote sex selection abortion as early as 6 weeks after conception. 

Our society is defenseless against the abuse of this technology. We have adopted the custom of providing abortions for any reason or no reason at all, so there is no rational objection to providing abortions for abhorrent reasons. We are desperately insecure about recognizing good and rejecting bad decisions.

The only real defense of the unborn child is in the heart of the mother. The time has come, in this era of unsustainably low fertility and a growing recognition of the harm done by abortion, for the state to actively publicize the harm of abortion and actively promote families. The legal status of abortion does not have to change for many lives to be saved and many women to be encouraged through the great challenges of pregnancy. The promotion of abortion by misguided apostles of self-fulfillment should be recognized for what it is – really, really bad advice. 

As usual, our politicians make a virtue of leading by following. But at some point our elected leaders may decide that, at the very least, the Canadian government should stop promoting misinformation supplied by abortion advocacy organizations that, in their zeal to promote unlimited access to publicly funded "abortion on demand," withhold important information about abortion's link to increased risk of future premature deliveries, infertility, chronic pelvic infections, future dangerous tubal pregnancies, breast cancer, depression, self-harm, and suicide.

Canadian Physicians for Life is an educational organization representing physicians who hold that reverence for every human life lies at the root of all medical tradition. Through the ages, this tradition has been expressed in the Oath of Hippocrates. It was rephrased in modern times in the Declaration of Geneva (1948), which says in part, “I will maintain the utmost respect for human life, from the time of conception; even under threat, I will not use my medical knowledge contrary to the laws of humanity.” [22June07, Will Johnston, MD, President, Canadian Physicians for Life, , Ottawa; Cheryl Eckstein, Compassionate Healthcare Network (CHN), www.chninternational.com/default.html. CHN is member of the World Federation of Doctors Who Respect Human Life (WFDWRHL) Dr. Karl Gunning, Pres.]

PARLIAMENTARIAN ATTACKS NEW EU REPORT THAT PROMOTES ABORTION: Charges EU Report has "a lot to do with controlling population figures in the third world". British Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Nirj Deva has slammed a new EU report on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Speaking in the European Parliament this week, Deva acknowledged the need for a